>>>>> "Ian" == Ian Jackson <ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes:
I think this is the big question. Because of modern thinking about power optimization, if I were designing this interface today I'd design it to be concurrent. In particular, you want to use as much concurrency as you can to maximize utilization of CPU and IO without introducing unnecessary resource thrashing. We've generally concluded that short periods of very high activity are better in terms of power utilization than longer periods of moderate activity. So, I think this feature request is coming about exactly because some people desire the concurrency and are questioning whether the classical interface design still meets modern needs. Of course we can continue to provide the same semantics. That's what systemd-cron does today. The interesting question here is whether that's actually desirable. Starting by presuming that it is sidesteps the entire discussion. --Sam
